Scream 7

It’s not that 'Scream 7' is a bad 'Scream' movie. There are no bad 'Scream' movies (yet). Even the worst one is kind of alright, and this is the worst one.

There’s just about enough here to show signs of life...but Williamson often feels like he’s treading water when he should be drawing blood.

Let me put it this way: When I look back at this franchise in another 30 years, Scream 7 is not going to be one of the installments I’m nostalgic about.

Simply put, Scream 7 isn’t very scary, and it isn’t very inventively gory (which some of the sequels have been).

There’s only so far you can take a slasher series without doing something truly off-the-wall. Since the studio refused to attempt a radical refit, we’re left with this: a franchise-charring dumpster fire.

Scream 7 is anything but cutting edge.

Sorry, but you need to have something to think about during this latest edition of a franchise that is dead creatively if certainly not commercially.

A lot has been said about this installment. The controversy surrounding the missed renewal of Barrera’s contract is undeniably an ugly situation. That said, it’s impossible to ignore that Parts 5 and 6 were particularly—and at times offensively—bad, plagued by cringe-worthy writing, sloppy direction, cheap-looking production, and weak performances. This new sequel, while not perfect, passionately brings back wit, creativity, emotional depth, and—most importantly—Neve Campbell and Marco Beltrami. Scream 7 is simply glorious, delivering a thrilling cinematic experience packed with suspense, a higher body count, greater stakes, beautiful music, and carefully crafted visuals. Neve and Courteney shine as usual, and Isabel May as Tatum is a revelation. Highly recommended in IMAX for the best picture quality as many scenes are very dark! This is the sequel we should have gotten from the very beginning after 4.

Much better than the last few Scream movies, but the original magic has long since faded. And like in every installment, the reveal of who the killers are is the weakest part. None of these films ever build up to it in a logical way. they just pick two random characters at the end and come up with some dumb explanation for why it's them, and it never really makes sense. That's been annoying since part 2, and it hasn't improved here. Even though I like Isabel May, she's clearly miscast in this one. Pretty much any of the girls in smaller roles would have been a better fit for the part. Courteney Cox looks worse with each movie, and at this point they should just give her a heroic death so we're spared from seeing her again in future installments. If you watched the last two Scream movies in theaters, you can definitely watch this one as well. you'll get your money's worth.

So this has had a lot of bad reviews, but a few friends who'd already seen it seemed to enjoy it. The good news is it's an improvement on Scream 6. The loss of Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega has helped especially, because the Carpenter sisters were the most boring new characters from the reboot as it is and certainly not worthy of replacing Sidney Prescott. The bad news is it's not really a proper Scream film at all.. it gets off to a great start at the house in Woodsboro but then the first kill scene rapidly turns gratuitous and unpleasant, and it's at that point you instantly realise this is just a bog standard gory slasher film with Scream characters in it. The typical rules of the franchise have been thrown out now and it plays out more like your average Blumhouse slasher or Saw movie, with all the same problems - characters get absolutely no development before being immoliated, impaled through the head or ripped open with their guts falling out. There's a 10 minute scene with Mindy, Chad and the other young characters in a bar discussing who the killers could be, which turns out to be nothing more than paying lip service to the series rules because immediately afterwards, all the plausible prime suspects are murdered one after another in a single scene. Beyond the return of Sidney, the only sign this is any way related to the Scream series is a huge amount of surface-level fan service that adds nothing to the plot. We're back in Woodsboro again and Stu Macher, Nancy Loomis and Dewey Riley return as deepfakes. Even the boyfriend of Sidney's daughter Tatum is an obvious Cotton Weary lookalike that I'm certain was a deliberate casting choice. Gale Weathers is also back with the newer characters Chad and Mindy working for her. But as with Scream 6, Gale gets about 5 minutes of worthwhile screen time and adds nothing to the plot - as do Chad and Mindy, which makes you wonder why the writers bothered bringing them back in the first place. The film would've been much better off without adding the whole AI deepfake plot device just to bring back long dead characters for no reason. Overall, Scream 7 had a lot more going for it - it's far less chaotic and convoluted than Scream 6, with none of the repetitive fake plot twists or unrealistic scenes of people running away from Ghostface after being stabbed multiple times. It's good to have Sidney back and her daughter Tatum is a great addition to the series. Ultimately though it's been let down by a ton of unnecessary fan service, careless writing, and unnecessarily graphic death scenes that have no place in a Scream film. At its best, the Scream series is clever, witty and fun to watch, whereas this one is mostly just gory, depressing and joyless. As I say it's still an improvement on Scream 6 but the next movie HAS to be better than this. What a disappointment.

By the 7th installment in this franchise, what would you expect? Not much, and the film keeps it truthful to expectations. Scream 7 is a lackluster that just capitalizes on a well-known movie series that, by now, it is starting to get old. So again we have the mastermind Kevin Williamson keeping his series alive but, for the first time, Kevin is now also the director, which one would had thought would give him more space to shine, but Scream 7 just beats on the same old idea. Again, Ghostface is after our scream-queen Sydney and, well oh well, who is now the 2-3 culprits behind the mask. Yes, it is never 1 as we all know - or is it? One would think this movie would try different tricks, but the true things is that the only new trait here is the motive behind everything, which doesn't really work honestly. The story also tries to sort of make some statement about AI and deep fakes, but it just plays out so poorly that you just don't get the point. In the end, this subplot is just a cheap exploitation to get some recurrent characters on screen. Of course, the acting is Hollywood style, Neve and Courteney delivering the expected duo partnering for yet another adventure, and the teens are our Late Millenniums, early Alphas. Nothing to see here, folks. And then, like I said, the motive, which is the big revelation at the end of every Scream movie, is new but we are getting sick of this I guess. It just didn't hit right. Overall, watch it at home and only if you ave been following the franchise since Movie 1. Otherwise, not worth it.

Es quizas la peor de toda la saga Scream, tenía mucho potencial, pero lo han desperdiciado, aunque hay que reconocer que los primeros minutos de peli son lo suficientemente buenos como para enganchar a un fan. Pero omitiendo el inicio, el resto de la entrega es un chiste, la trama principal es extraña e incluso graciosa, los villanos (gosthface) son los peores que han habido y los personajes son irritantes hasta el punto que te dan ganas de dejar de verla. Recomiendo verla si eres muy fan de la saga, pero si lo que buscas es una buena pelicula de terror y asesinos, no la veas, es pésima.